What I use day to day online, as a privacy conscious person.
Hey fellas, nice to meet you. I'm a pretty privacy conscious person online. Not just skids and heckers, but big corporations and (sigh) governments snopping up and violating my privacy like it never existed.
Let's start with the biggest and the most important one: Operating system. There's only like 3 big contendors in the OS space, Windows, Linux and MacOS. Unfortunately, I cannot use the last one because I'm (kinda) broke and it is very out of my budget. Not only that, it's not really that great for systems level programming (which I am learning). So after using Windows 7 & Windows 10 for pretty much my entire life, I switched to Linux. More specifically, Linux Mint. It's a pretty great distro, sure there might be some caveats here and there but it was good enough for me. Speaking of Linux, I got into the Great Linux Rabbit Hole (does that even exist lol) and now in my free time I'm thinking of which WM goes well with Arch (I'll switch to it in the future).
Next up, the browser. It was a pretty obvious choice: Gecko based browsers. After switching to Mint, I couldn't even force myself to use chromium based browsers. I had ascended a new level of enlightenment and I now was very well aware of the google's monopoly and to bring change in the world, I decided to be the change. I hate chromium the more I read about it everyday, and that makes me love browsers like Firefox even more. But vanilla Firefox wasn't that great, so I went with LibreWolf. It's AWESOME and so much better than what I could ask for. I get it, not everyone likes this one, but I am in love with LibreWolf and can no longer browse the web without it.
Usually changing these two would be more than enough, but I also changed a few other things. I'll list them:
- Slowly switching from Google products to Proton products. Proton is such a wonderful company with the work that they're doing, W. I use Proton VPN, Proton Mail. They also have Proton Drive but I don't use that one since I don't have much to store.
- Use a password manager: Currently I have Bitwarden but I'm thinking to switch over to the Proton based one soon.
- Use 2FA: Yup, currently I use Google Auth but again I'll switch over to the proton one soon enough.
These are pretty much all the major ones but smaller ones include using uBo with the OSID domain blocklist and some other which I can't exactly remember.
Anyways, thanks for reading this much guys.
Much love, NSS.